Aardonyx "Earth Claw" Dinosaur Discovery

Dr. Matt Bonnan, Western Illinois University, discusses the journey to discovery of Aardonyx.

Dr. Bonnan is a vertebrate paleobiologist and a functional morphologist, studying how the bone and muscle systems work in living animals and looking for clues in the skeletons of fossil ones. He is an expert on sauropod dinosaurs and is interested in why dinosaurs generally became so gigantic. Here, he is speaking about his team's latest discovery of Aardonyx and why this dinosaur is an important discovery.

Read Dr. Bonnan's Jurassic Journeys blog at http://jurassicjourneys.net/

More information is also available at http://wiu.edu/EarthClaw/

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[Megamediaplex]

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[Agraf1727]

Amazing find Dr. Bonnan, any chance of seeing your findings and its consequences published in NG?

[jjhanki1]

i thought there wasnt anymore dinosaurs left to discover but i guess theres more more than just 4,980 eh idk the dinosaurs has been discovered

[1976SammyJ]

Wow!!! Awesome news Matt!! Glad to see that you guys are getting publication on your find. Very informative and great explanation on how the articulation distinguishes Aardonyx from the other dinosaurs. Congrats!!!!